Sketch Number 8
- A reduced reproduction of the enlarged machine gunner
Sketch 8 is
an enlargement of the photo of the hero with the girls and soldiers
in the preceding sketch traced in the background. The back of
this sketch was scumbled in pencil for the final tracing on illustration
board. The halftone reproduction below shows the painting at
this stage.
This shows how
the illustration looked when the figures were finished, but before
the foliage was added
The final step
was to organize the foliage so it would discreetly -- and partially
-- hide the native girls, conceal the GI from the enemy, and
still allow the reader to see what was going on. This was worked
out in the sketch below on tracing paper directly over the illustration.
This is a sketch
of the foliage to be traced over the finished figures